Preparing Yourself for Peak Performance Do you sometimes become overwhelmed during a long season? Training, practicing, and competing take a lot of physical effort and emotional energy. The grind during the season can wear down many tennis players. The stress of being an athlete can be challenging. Many
The Mindset to Learn From Your Mistakes What effects do match-ending mistakes have on your confidence? For most tennis players, losing is difficult, but making a costly mistake late in a competition can hurt their confidence. Small mistakes early in a match can still affect your confidence. However, costly
Winning Over Self Doubt and High Expectations Are you committed to improving your mental game in tennis, however, your perfectionism is getting in the way. In this week’s tennis psychology podcast, mental game of tennis expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn answers a question from Stacy. Here’s what he had to say about his
Focus on the Shot that You want to Hit Are you the tennis player that tends to worry about double-faulting and thus go ahead and execute that double fault? In this week’s tennis psychology podcast, mental game of tennis expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn answers a question from John. Here’s what he had
Use Mental Toughness to Fight Through Challenges On a scale from 1-10, how would you rate your mental toughness? How often do you work on mental toughness? Regularly, occasionally, rarely, or never? A large component of your performance is grounded in mental toughness. Mental toughness is your ability
Training Your Mind to Respond to Adversity What do you do when you are having a bad practice and become frustrated? When you are struggling in practice, do you just go through the motions or do you keep working hard? Most tennis players feel they have the luxury